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Timothy Fitzgerald - Discourse on Civility and Barbarity - 9780195300093 - KSG0034224
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Discourse on Civility and Barbarity

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Description for Discourse on Civility and Barbarity hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 682. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
In recent years scholars have begun to question the usefulness of the category of ''religion'' to describe a distinctive form of human experience and behavior. In his last book, The Ideology of Religious Studies (OUP 2000), Timothy Fitzgerald argued that ''religion'' was not a private area of human existence that could be separated from the public realm and that the study of religion as such was thus impossibility. In this new book he examines a wide range of English language texts to show how religion became transformed from a very specific category indigenous to Christian culture into a universalist claim ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195300093
SKU
KSG0034224
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Reviews for Discourse on Civility and Barbarity
Timothy Fitzgerald is one of the most important scholars raising questions about the category of religion today, and in this essay he makes significant new contributions. He broadens the range of the discussion to include important but neglected categories that arose along with the category of religion, most notably the secular and the political, and he traces the emergence of ... Read more

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